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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roman Waupotitsch, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Geometrix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
Abstract
A mesh generator and process based on a volumetric representation is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a 3D region of an object is generated by a space carving process and represented by volumetric cells encoded in a tree structure, such as an octree tree. Given the 3D region, the mesh process generates a mesh of elements covering the entire 3D region and intersecting with each other either not at all or at common boundary faces.